SenorDan:Are all those people in "Mission Control" really necessary or is it just for looks? I'm sure a few of them are actually doing something but in one of the shots it looked like a lady was just watching the broadcast on her monitors.

naughtyrev:Hate to be morbid, but if the chutes don't work, does he have an out of some sort in terms of offing himself, rather than hitting the ground and turning to jelly? Maybe pull a cord and a spike is driven into his brain stem....

You don't want to pull that by mistake. I'm inclined to think he's been hypnotised into thinking he's a whale.

naughtyrev:Hate to be morbid, but if the chutes don't work, does he have an out of some sort in terms of offing himself, rather than hitting the ground and turning to jelly? Maybe pull a cord and a spike is driven into his brain stem....

Hate to be morbid, but if the chutes don't work, does he have an out of some sort in terms of offing himself, rather than hitting the ground and turning to jelly? Maybe pull a cord and a spike is driven into his brain stem....

wxboy:HotIgneous Intruder: NIXON YOU DOLT!!!!!: HotIgneous Intruder: NIXON YOU DOLT!!!!!: HotIgneous Intruder: NeoCortex42: I just turned on the Discovery Channel feed. Took me a moment to realize what the display was showing:46,112 ft 14.094 m

I get that Europe likes putting decimals in for commas in big numbers, but don't mix notation in a single display. Bugs the hell out of me.

That's 14 point zero nine four miles high.

No, it's meters.

Thanks!I had no idea there were 3,277 feet per meter.

There certainly aren't that many feet per mile.

They're using the European convention, the decimal is where we would normally put a comma.

The figures represent feet and miles in altitude above sea level.Stop. Think. Act.